#fortune

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to. ↗

— Paul Valery

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Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence. ↗

— John Dryden

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It has become a certainty now that if you will only advertise sufficiently you may make a fortune by selling anything. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton. ↗

— Thomas Day

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Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you. ↗

— Virgil

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Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. ↗

— Virgil

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With no matter what human being, taken individually, I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him; either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great, or, on the contrary, too precious to be destroyed. ↗

— Simone Weil

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Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. ↗

— Edith Wharton

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